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Simon wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:21 am I was gonna post about the doors. I think it's a great quirk. It shows lineage, you know?
It shows the penny pinching accountants getting involved! I bet the designers can't even look at it!
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Rich B wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:26 am
Simon wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:21 am I was gonna post about the doors. I think it's a great quirk. It shows lineage, you know?
It shows the penny pinching accountants getting involved! I bet the designers can't even look at it!
If it saved them enough cash to engineer that extra set of seats who cares :)
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speedingfine wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:30 am
Rich B wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:26 am
Simon wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:21 am I was gonna post about the doors. I think it's a great quirk. It shows lineage, you know?
It shows the penny pinching accountants getting involved! I bet the designers can't even look at it!
If it saved them enough cash to engineer that extra set of seats who cares :)
Those seats are great!
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I've not watched the video yet but assuming it's a 145, did they have the rear seatbelts attached to chromed steel rods like the 245? I loved the fact that those were visible through the massive rear side windows.
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speedingfine wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:48 pm

JS has done a great, sensitive job with this vid 8-)
Great vid. Trevor took fastidiousness to a whole new level. 8-)
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Rich B wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:26 am
Simon wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:21 am I was gonna post about the doors. I think it's a great quirk. It shows lineage, you know?
It shows the penny pinching accountants getting involved! I bet the designers can't even look at it!
Yep, awful bit of design, still bugs me every time I see one.
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duncs500 wrote: Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:44 am
speedingfine wrote: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:48 pm

JS has done a great, sensitive job with this vid 8-)
Great vid. Trevor took fastidiousness to a whole new level. 8-)
That’s the best YouTube video I’ve ever watched, no guff, no stupidity and beautifully shot, absolutely genuine excitement from them.

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Cringe video but amusing all the same. Soper tries to make a Montego look fast..

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They were about 7.5 to 60 I seem to remember - that's not bad in it's day!
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My grandad had a MG Maestro turbo. Felt pretty rapid to me at the time.

Was still a Maestro though :lol:
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I remember my mum got one as a courtesy car when someone (17 year old me) wrote off her Maestro. I always though it was a weird car to have on the bodywork courtesy fleet!
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Barry wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:11 pm Cringe video but amusing all the same. Soper tries to make a Montego look fast..

That came up on my YouTube recommendation last week.

Some weird YouTube algorithms going on!
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When my Dad worked for a Vauxhall dealership they would give out the demonstrators as courtesy cars if they ran out of the 1.0 Corsas they usually used. If you were really lucky you might get a V6 Vectra or Omega :lol:.

The management types would use them like company cars as well. I’m amazed that they ever actually had any to demonstrate.
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Oh Alpine, what are you doing..



Hideous thing but you can't scoff at the stats on this thing.,
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Impressive numbers but thoroughly undesirable.

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Rich B wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:28 pm They were about 7.5 to 60 I seem to remember - that's not bad in it's day!
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Zonda_ wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:45 pm
Rich B wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:28 pm They were about 7.5 to 60 I seem to remember - that's not bad in it's day!
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Montego Turbo, not the standard EFi.
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Zonda_ wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:45 pm
Rich B wrote: Wed Jan 20, 2021 1:28 pm They were about 7.5 to 60 I seem to remember - that's not bad in it's day!
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Nah - not for the Turbo. 7.3 was the claim (with the Maestro Turbo even quicker).
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Ooh yeah! 8-)

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Biggest surprise is how good it sounds.
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